Nashville Capital Network

Nashville Capital Network accelerates the development of early stage companies by nurturing the most promising entrepreneurs and connecting them with knowledgeable, experienced investors. NCN has cultivated a network of qualified and committed individual investors who have invested more than $42 million in Tennessee-based companies. Additionally, NCN manages NCN Angel Fund I, NCN Angel Fund II and the TNInvestco Tennessee Angel Fund.
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Jay Baker

Associate

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T. Sidney Chambless

Managing Partner and Executive Director

Sid Chambless

Executive Director / Managing Partner

Chase Perry

Director / Managing Partner

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Morgan Pisano

Director of Operations

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Dustin Rohrer

Associate

51 past transactions

Medical Direct Club, LLC

Series A in 2009
Medical Direct Club, LLC distributes catheter products and urological supplies in the United States. It offers intermittent, closed system, coude, external, foley, hydrophilic, DEHP free, latex free, and virtually pain free catheters for patients with chronic medical diagnoses, such as spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis, transverse myelitis, and spina bifida. It also offers Medicare, Medicaid, and insurance for urological supplies. The company was formerly known as Medical Care Club, LLC. Medical Direct Club, LLC was founded in 2009 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee. As of December 7, 2015, Medical Direct Club, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Comfort Medical, LLC.
Upfront Healthcare Services, Inc. designs and develops a data analytics platform to help physician practices ascertain how to schedule and allocate resources. The platform automates and personalizes care navigation to efficiently engage all patients, optimize sites of care, grow necessary visit completion and improve outcomes. It offers demographics, billing data, schedule data, claims data, and care gap data. Upfront Healthcare Services, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

HubSync

Series A in 2023
HubSync is a revolutionary, easy-to-use platform that unifies and automates the entire tax preparation process through a secure, highly flexible, all-in-one cloud-based productivity platform.

Bellhops, Inc.

Series C in 2018
Bellhops, Inc. provides truck, trailer, storage unit, or mobile storage container loading and unloading services, as well as and heavy lifting services. The company offers its services through applications and online platform that connect athletic students with people and businesses needing moving help and lifting labor. It handles small and medium scale moves. The company serves the United States citizens. Bellhops, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

PayShepherd

Seed Round in 2022
PayShepherd is a fintech platform that helps you manage your contractor billing.They ensure that your facility is billed the right amount every time, avoiding overages that can cost you serious money over time. PayShepherd improves communication between facilities and contractors, ensuring pay is fair and accurate for everyone.

Edo Interactive

Venture Round in 2014
edo provides an easy way to personalize offers and make them automatically available through credit or debit cards and mobile devices. Simply put, edo is the simplest way to connect online advertising with in-store results. edo helps advertisers connect advertising with in-store results. Through our bank partners we can deliver card-linked offers that are targeted & automatically available on credit cards, debit cards & mobile phones. This intersection of ‘payments & advertising’ rides a number of marketplace trends including the convergence of digital, personalization and mobile. edo is headquartered in Nashville, Tenn. with additional offices in Chicago, New York City and Atlanta. For more information, visit www.edointeractive.com or find us on Twitter @edointeractive

NeighborMD

Seed Round in 2013
When a local start-up asks you to brand its flagship location you don’t turn them down. NeighborMD asked Advent to help brand its neighborhood health-care clinics in a way that had never been done before, but they weren’t sure what it was.

Trilliant Health, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Trilliant Health, Inc. operates as an analytics and data science company. It offers intelligent patient acquisition solutions by synthesizing all-payer claims, household, and patient-generated data. The company’s solutions also include analytics platform, physician relationship management, and consumer acquisition platform. Trilliant Health, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Brentwood, Tennessee.

Ambition

Series B in 2021
Ambition Solutions, LLC provides a software platform for office applications. It offers Ambition that enables companies to sort employees into the functional roles and titles; and set and weight employee benchmarks to create the Ambition Score, a measure of overall performance. The company’s Ambition also enables the companies to provide transparency for employees and managers to monitor performance and momentum in real-time. Ambition Solutions, LLC was founded in 2013 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Care Team Connect

Venture Round in 2013
Through a secure, web-based platform, Care Team Connect unites all of those involved in the continuum of care to deliver the right care to the right patient at the right time.

CareHarmony

Series A in 2022
At CareHarmony, we seek to improve the patient experience and clinical outcomes by providing compassionate, whole-person care coordination services. Our high-tech, high-touch offering includes a turnkey Chronic Care Management solution designed to offer healthcare providers an easy, limited-risk first step into value-based care.

LiveSchool

Series A in 2014
LiveSchool, Inc. (LiveSchool) sells subscriptions to a tablet-based application (“app”) for tracking and managing student data. The software dramatically reduces the time teachers spend on administrative tasks and provides real-time feedback that improves student accountability, parent involvement, and educational leadership's access to timely, actionable data.

Pathfinder Therapeutics

Series A in 2008
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CareHarmony

Venture Round in 2018
At CareHarmony, we seek to improve the patient experience and clinical outcomes by providing compassionate, whole-person care coordination services. Our high-tech, high-touch offering includes a turnkey Chronic Care Management solution designed to offer healthcare providers an easy, limited-risk first step into value-based care.

ONFocus Healthcare

Venture Round in 2013
Originally founded in 1985 as a healthcare strategic planning consulting firm called m21partners, onFocus Healthcare was re-incorporated in 2008 as a business execution software solutions company. Today, onFocus is the leading provider of enterprise performance management (EPM) software and support services for the healthcare marketplace. Their product, onFocus epm™, ensures that patients get better, faster, and less expensive care by helping hospitals continuously execute and perform at higher levels. They are dedicated to the success of healthcare organizations and the executives, managers and employees who lead them. Through the use of their software products and advisory services, they strive to improve the execution success and performance of every provider they work with by at least 20%.

NuScriptRX, Inc.

Series D in 2014
NuScriptRX, Inc. operates a long-term care pharmacy store. The company engages in delivering medications to long-term care facilities. NuScriptRX, Inc. was formerly known as New Day Pharmacy Corporation. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

NuScriptRX, Inc.

Venture Round in 2013
NuScriptRX, Inc. operates a long-term care pharmacy store. The company engages in delivering medications to long-term care facilities. NuScriptRX, Inc. was formerly known as New Day Pharmacy Corporation. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

American Hometown Media

Seed Round in 2013
American Hometown Media, Inc. owns and operates an Internet platform to engage in analog publishing of American home cooks. The company syndicates the editorial content featuring journalism celebrating hometown cooks to community newspapers, magazines, and other media around the country. It also offers Just A Pinch Recipes, a digital recipe and coupon social network with a focus on home cooks; and Just A Pinch Syndicated Media, a platform to deliver content on home cooks, recipes, and snapshots of the culture and heritage of America's hometowns to media contacts. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Inova Payroll, Inc.

Series A in 2011
Inova Payroll, Inc., a payroll service provider, provides payroll, human resource (HR), tax filing, and related services for companies in the United States. It offers 401(k), Section 125, health insurance, workers compensation, time and attendance, background screening, COBRA administration, PayCards, and tax credits program services. The company’s tax filing and reporting services include filing, reporting, and depositing of payroll taxes and returns. Its services also cover federal, state, and local jurisdictions; detailed pay period reports; quarterly and annual reporting; and W2s/1099s. In addition, the company offers online tools for employee tracking, real-time HR reporting, HR on demand services, and time and pay entry. Inova Payroll was founded in 2010 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee with branch offices in Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee. It has field offices in Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, Tennessee; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Atlanta, Georgia.

Shareable Ink

Series A in 2010
Shareable Ink is an enterprise cloud computing firm that transforms point-of-care clinical documentation to structured data and analytics. Shareable Ink provides a software platform that enables health care organizations of all sizes to convert handwritten information on paper forms to data for electronic health records and other information systems. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

Contessa Health, Inc.

Series B in 2016
Contessa Health, Inc. offers home hospitalization programs to manage episodic risk initiatives. The company provides Home Recovery Care, a risk based model that combines all the elements of inpatient hospital care in the comfort of the patient’s home and an informatics platform to facilitate Home Recovery Care; ContessaCare, a solution that enable providers to deliver hospital-level care to patients in their homes; and ContradoClaim, a claims analytics solution that enable partners to administer prospective payments. Additionally, it offers bundled payment managed services. Contessa Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

Emma, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
Emma, Inc. develops email marketing software. The company offers Emma Plus, an email automation platform that enables marketers to create targeted campaign based on customer behavior. Its software helps in email automation, audience segmentations, A/B testing, creating landing pages, editing, and mobile email marketing. Its product also offers insights and metrics about subscribers through a dashboard, mailing score, and a click map. The company caters to agencies, franchises, universities, non-profit organizations, retailers, restaurants, and in-house marketing teams. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Concert Genetics, Inc.

Series B in 2014
Concert Genetics helps physicians order genetic tests by providing them with the information they need to find the right test for their patients quickly and efficiently. Today, physicians can utilize genetic tests to diagnose over 2,000 diseases. A proper diagnosis leads to more effective treatment and improved clinical outcomes. However, most physicians are not trained in genetics and have little understanding of how to utilize these tests. Concert Genetics is filling this gap with the creation of a one-stop, web-based marketplace that physicians can utilize as resources for all their genetic testing needs. Through this tool, we will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the market between physicians and genetic reference labs.

BreatheAmerica

Series A in 2008
BreatheAmerica provides treatment facilities for patients suffering from breathing and other related allergic problems. BreatheAmerica is a company dedicated to improving how healthcare services are delivered to patients who suffer from chronic airway diseases - allergy, sinusitis, asthma, and other related diseases - with the goal of improving outcomes, reducing healthcare expenditures, and delivering an exceptional, differentiated patient experience. Joseph C. Hutts and Derril Reeves formed the company in Nashville, Tennesee in 2006.

Protein Discovery

Series C in 2008
Protein Discovery, Inc., a life sciences company, develops and commercializes sample preparation technologies that enable protein and peptide analysis using mass spectrometry. It provides Gelfree 8100, a fractionation system that partitions complex protein mixtures into liquid-phase molecular weight fractions; Passport 1200, a sample preparation system that enriches low molecular weight proteins and peptides, and removes matrix interferences for high-throughput quantification applications; and PPS Silent Surfactant, a protein preparation reagent that solubilizes membrane proteins and cleaves to eliminate detergent interference. The company also provides UPX universal protein extraction kit for detergent extraction of proteins from cells and tissues. It serves life science researchers and drug development scientists. The company markets its products through Agilent Technologies, as well as online in the United States and internationally. Protein Discovery, Inc. was founded as Qgenics Biosciences, Inc. in 2001 and changed its name to Protein Discovery, Inc. in April 2004. The company is based in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Silvercare Solutions

Series A in 2009
Silvercare Solutions was founded in 2008 to provide on-site continence care services to long-term care facilities. Silver Care Solutions, the Nashville-based provider of incontinence care for residents of nursing homes and assisted living centers, said it raised $3 million in March, 2011 through a new financing round to fund the company’s growth. The money is being used to hire 22 specialized nurse practitioners and 22 clinical assistants to provide the incontinence care to the seniors. Previously, Silver Care had only 14 nurse practitioners and 12 clinical assistants. The company also has hired three regional account directors with plans to add a fourth person to pursue new nursing home and other clients and identify more potential patients within existing client nursing homes. FCA Venture Partners led the financing round. The Tennessee Angel Fund, a TNInvestco fund managed by the Nashville Capital Network, made a co-investment.

Complete Holdings Group, Inc.

Private Equity Round in 2012
Complete Holdings Group, Inc. provides worker’s compensation revenue solutions. It helps healthcare providers to identify and collect the revenue they are entitled to from workers’ compensation insurance companies; and helps mid-to large-size P and C insurers, self-insured employers, and self-insured groups to identify and recapture overpayments made to healthcare providers. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Franklin, Tennessee.
Upfront Healthcare Services, Inc. designs and develops a data analytics platform to help physician practices ascertain how to schedule and allocate resources. The platform automates and personalizes care navigation to efficiently engage all patients, optimize sites of care, grow necessary visit completion and improve outcomes. It offers demographics, billing data, schedule data, claims data, and care gap data. Upfront Healthcare Services, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Edo Interactive

Venture Round in 2013
edo provides an easy way to personalize offers and make them automatically available through credit or debit cards and mobile devices. Simply put, edo is the simplest way to connect online advertising with in-store results. edo helps advertisers connect advertising with in-store results. Through our bank partners we can deliver card-linked offers that are targeted & automatically available on credit cards, debit cards & mobile phones. This intersection of ‘payments & advertising’ rides a number of marketplace trends including the convergence of digital, personalization and mobile. edo is headquartered in Nashville, Tenn. with additional offices in Chicago, New York City and Atlanta. For more information, visit www.edointeractive.com or find us on Twitter @edointeractive

Snapshot Interactive

Seed Round in 2013
Snapshot Interactive, LLC operates as a digital agency that provides video production, web design, and development services. It offers commercial videos, motion graphic videos, video news releases, B-roll packages, and industrial and corporate profile videos. The company also provides promo videos, animation, 3D work, commercial spots, interface design, non-traditional pieces, streaming videos, video bios, documentary vignettes, hosting, SEO, digital strategy, 2d animation, work play, character design, Web videos, soundtrack design, web walkouts, video resumes, CMS design, on-location shoots, in-studio shoots, color correction, DVD interfaces, and custom video players. Snapshot Interactive, LLC was founded in 2010 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee with additional offices in St. Louis, Missouri; and Austin, Texas.

Unity Physician Partners

Seed Round in 2013
Unity Physician Partners offers primary care-based medical and ancillary healthcare services as the provider of choice for patients, physicians, and communities. Through integrated services and a person-centered system of care, Unity Physician Partners employs a holistic approach to improving patient care and lowering healthcare costs. The Unity team provides a strong foundation for delivering care to underserved patients with behavioral and primary healthcare needs.

Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc.

Venture Round in 2014
Digital Reasoning is a developer of an artificial intelligence cognitive computing platform intended for businesses. It is an Artificial Intelligence company that understands the nuances of human intention and behavior found in communications providing global enterprises with critical intelligence and insights. It was founded by Tim Estes in 2000 and is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.

ONFocus Healthcare

Series B in 2010
Originally founded in 1985 as a healthcare strategic planning consulting firm called m21partners, onFocus Healthcare was re-incorporated in 2008 as a business execution software solutions company. Today, onFocus is the leading provider of enterprise performance management (EPM) software and support services for the healthcare marketplace. Their product, onFocus epm™, ensures that patients get better, faster, and less expensive care by helping hospitals continuously execute and perform at higher levels. They are dedicated to the success of healthcare organizations and the executives, managers and employees who lead them. Through the use of their software products and advisory services, they strive to improve the execution success and performance of every provider they work with by at least 20%.

XOi Technologies

Series C in 2019
XOi Technologies is a cloud-based mobile application that empowers field service companies to do more business with greener techs and fewer truck rolls. They change the way field service companies in the electrical, mechanical, and plumbing industries capture data, communicate with stakeholders, and service their customers. XOi Technologies develops and designs wearable technology solutions for business. It also offers an industrial eyewear computing platform that comprised of both firmware and comprehensive suite of software applications. The company uses natural language processing, machine learning, workflow automation, and computer vision to streamline documentation of intelligent archive and resurface service content, service calls, real-time remote support, and improve customer transparency from the frontlines of field service. XOi Technologies was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Continuum LLC

Series A in 2008
Continuum is a global innovation consultancy that brings ideas to markets. Continuum strives to deliver market innovation through the integration of informed strategy, thoughtful design, and solid engineering. Continuum has offices in Boston, Los Angeles, Milan, Seoul, and Shanghai.

NeighborMD

Seed Round in 2012
When a local start-up asks you to brand its flagship location you don’t turn them down. NeighborMD asked Advent to help brand its neighborhood health-care clinics in a way that had never been done before, but they weren’t sure what it was.

AxiaMed

Private Equity Round in 2018
The Healthcare Payment Specialists. AxiaMed partners with independent software vendors (ISVs) to offer secure patient payment solutions from within their healthcare applications. Our integrated offerings help improve the financial performance of healthcare providers by expanding the payment options available to patients, streamlining administrative workflows, and reducing bad debt. Helping Patients Make Payments. In a digital world, we make handshakes.

ModifyHealth

Series A in 2020
ModifyHealth helps bring relief to patients suffering from conditions such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and celiac disease where dietary modification is a recommended treatment.

Inova Payroll, Inc.

Series B in 2012
Inova Payroll, Inc., a payroll service provider, provides payroll, human resource (HR), tax filing, and related services for companies in the United States. It offers 401(k), Section 125, health insurance, workers compensation, time and attendance, background screening, COBRA administration, PayCards, and tax credits program services. The company’s tax filing and reporting services include filing, reporting, and depositing of payroll taxes and returns. Its services also cover federal, state, and local jurisdictions; detailed pay period reports; quarterly and annual reporting; and W2s/1099s. In addition, the company offers online tools for employee tracking, real-time HR reporting, HR on demand services, and time and pay entry. Inova Payroll was founded in 2010 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee with branch offices in Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee. It has field offices in Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, Tennessee; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Atlanta, Georgia.

LiveSchool

Series A in 2013
LiveSchool, Inc. (LiveSchool) sells subscriptions to a tablet-based application (“app”) for tracking and managing student data. The software dramatically reduces the time teachers spend on administrative tasks and provides real-time feedback that improves student accountability, parent involvement, and educational leadership's access to timely, actionable data.

NuScriptRX, Inc.

Venture Round in 2013
NuScriptRX, Inc. operates a long-term care pharmacy store. The company engages in delivering medications to long-term care facilities. NuScriptRX, Inc. was formerly known as New Day Pharmacy Corporation. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Edo Interactive

Series A in 2008
edo provides an easy way to personalize offers and make them automatically available through credit or debit cards and mobile devices. Simply put, edo is the simplest way to connect online advertising with in-store results. edo helps advertisers connect advertising with in-store results. Through our bank partners we can deliver card-linked offers that are targeted & automatically available on credit cards, debit cards & mobile phones. This intersection of ‘payments & advertising’ rides a number of marketplace trends including the convergence of digital, personalization and mobile. edo is headquartered in Nashville, Tenn. with additional offices in Chicago, New York City and Atlanta. For more information, visit www.edointeractive.com or find us on Twitter @edointeractive

NuScriptRX, Inc.

Series C in 2012
NuScriptRX, Inc. operates a long-term care pharmacy store. The company engages in delivering medications to long-term care facilities. NuScriptRX, Inc. was formerly known as New Day Pharmacy Corporation. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Shareable Ink

Series C in 2013
Shareable Ink is an enterprise cloud computing firm that transforms point-of-care clinical documentation to structured data and analytics. Shareable Ink provides a software platform that enables health care organizations of all sizes to convert handwritten information on paper forms to data for electronic health records and other information systems. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

JumpCrew LLC

Series B in 2019
JumpCrew LLC provides sales and marketing solutions through a client acquisition platform. The company blends digital marketing tools and lead generation strategies, such as email, content, and voice marketing with sales execution to provide social media marketing and management solutions for local businesses. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Pathfinder Technologies

Venture Round in 2008
Pathfinder Technologies (formerly Pathfinder Therapeutics, Inc.), a medical device company, engages in the design, development, and manufacture of solutions in the field of navigated abdominal surgery. The company provides an integrated intra-operative image guidance system for open liver surgical procedure; and accessories, including IRED localization probes, navigated RF ablators, and navigated ultrasonic aspirators. Its system consists of a software architecture that allows the surgeon to display a 3D view of the liver. Its system is used in various open liver surgery applications, including hepatic resection, open ablation, open biopsy, living donor transplant, cyst removal, and tumor removal. Pathfinder Technologies was founded in 2004 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

NuScriptRX, Inc.

Series C in 2011
NuScriptRX, Inc. operates a long-term care pharmacy store. The company engages in delivering medications to long-term care facilities. NuScriptRX, Inc. was formerly known as New Day Pharmacy Corporation. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

American Hometown Media

Seed Round in 2011
American Hometown Media, Inc. owns and operates an Internet platform to engage in analog publishing of American home cooks. The company syndicates the editorial content featuring journalism celebrating hometown cooks to community newspapers, magazines, and other media around the country. It also offers Just A Pinch Recipes, a digital recipe and coupon social network with a focus on home cooks; and Just A Pinch Syndicated Media, a platform to deliver content on home cooks, recipes, and snapshots of the culture and heritage of America's hometowns to media contacts. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Aspire Health, Inc.

Series A in 2013
Aspire Health is a new healthcare company that specializes in providing an extra layer of support to patients facing a serious illness. The company's clinicians are experts in providing patients with relief from the symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious illness, helping patients and caregivers navigate the healthcare system; guiding patients and caregivers through difficult and complex treatment choices, and providing emotional and spiritual support to patients and their families. The company's practice in each market provides disease management and care coordination across many settings including outpatient clinics, patients’ homes, and assisted living centers. It was established in 2012 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.

XOi Technologies

Series B in 2017
XOi Technologies is a cloud-based mobile application that empowers field service companies to do more business with greener techs and fewer truck rolls. They change the way field service companies in the electrical, mechanical, and plumbing industries capture data, communicate with stakeholders, and service their customers. XOi Technologies develops and designs wearable technology solutions for business. It also offers an industrial eyewear computing platform that comprised of both firmware and comprehensive suite of software applications. The company uses natural language processing, machine learning, workflow automation, and computer vision to streamline documentation of intelligent archive and resurface service content, service calls, real-time remote support, and improve customer transparency from the frontlines of field service. XOi Technologies was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

American Hometown Media

Seed Round in 2012
American Hometown Media, Inc. owns and operates an Internet platform to engage in analog publishing of American home cooks. The company syndicates the editorial content featuring journalism celebrating hometown cooks to community newspapers, magazines, and other media around the country. It also offers Just A Pinch Recipes, a digital recipe and coupon social network with a focus on home cooks; and Just A Pinch Syndicated Media, a platform to deliver content on home cooks, recipes, and snapshots of the culture and heritage of America's hometowns to media contacts. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.